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J. B. SMITH -& P. E. WILLIAMS.

BED.

APPLIUATION FILED OUT. 7, 1913.

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APPLICATION FILED 0017, 1913. 1,088,468. Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANCIGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. n. c.

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JAMES B. SMITH AND PARSKILL E. WILLIAMS, OF RYAN, OKLAHOMA.

BED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 24, 1914.

Application filed October 7, 1913. Serial No. 793,953.

auxiliary bed structure connected with the main bed and adapted to bemoved into a position to one side of the main bed for use or to aposition wholly beneath the main bed when not desired for use.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of anauxiliary bed structure including a means removably secured to the mainbed and slidably supporting the auxiliary bed, whereby the auxiliary bedmay be moved laterally with relation to the main bed, the entirestructure being readily separable from or connectable to the main bed ina simple, expeditious manher.

The invention in its preferred form of details will be described in thefollowing specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, in which z- Figure l is a perspective view of the improved bed,the auxiliary bed being extended. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same withthe auxiliary bed in inope'ative position. Fig. 3 is a longitudinalsection of the same. Fig. at is a perspective view of one of the guidebars for connection with the main bed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofone end of the auxiliary bed removed. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail viewof one corner of the auxiliary bed, showing the leg structure therefor.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawings, the main bed may beof any usual or preferred construction, that shown being the usual typeof metal bed including the head piece 1, foot piece 2 and angle sidebars 3 on which. the usual spring frame is designed to be set in the useof the main bed.

While showing and describing the invention in connection with a metalbed it is to be understood that it is equally adaptable to wooden beds,the sole difference in structure being in the relative adjustment of thesize of the parts to cooperate with the side rails of the wooden bedwhich as is well known differ from the side rails or bars of the metalbed.

The auxiliary bed includes guide rails 4 designed to be removablysecured to the side rails of the bed. These guide rails are of identicalstructure, preferably constructed of a single strip of metal formed toprovide a bearing flange 5 which at its lower end is formed in a returnbend and projected upwardly to form a second guide flange 6, said flange6 being of less height than the flange 5 and disposed in approximateparallelism therewith. The holding means for the guide rails includeclips 7 having parallel relatively offset 1 caring sections 8 and 9, thelatter being designed to be secured to the flange t of the guide rail onthe upper surface thereof while the former is designed to overlie thehorizontal flange of the side rail of the bed, being suliicientlyoffsetfrom the relatively upper surface of the guide rail as to receivethe horizontal flange of the bed side rail between the section Sand theupper surface of the flange t of the guide rail. To permit the guiderails to be removably secured to the side rails of the bed one or bothof the clips 7 may be slidably connected to said guide rail as forexample by forming a slot in the section 9 of the clip to receive a setscrew passing through the flange l: of the guide rail, by which meansthe clips may be withdrawn to their limit of inward movement, the guiderails positioned against the horizontal flanges of the bed rails from beneath and the clips moved outwardly to engage above said side rails andclamped in position. The guide rails are thus fixedly secured to the bedstructure, being of course located a proper distance apart to receivethe auxiliary bed between them. The auxiliary bed comprises a frame 10including end rails 11 and the side rails 19, the latter being of angleshape to prevent lateral slipping of the mattress placed thereon.VVithin the frame 10 is secured any desired type of bed spring 13, and Ido not limit myself in any degree concerning this particular feature ofthe invention. The end rails 11 which are of angular form are eachprovided with a guide member to cooperate with the guide rails securedto the main bed which guide member comprises a metallic strip having itsupper end bent downwardly in return form as at 14: extending inparallelism with the main section 15 of the guide strip, the lower endof the guide strip being projected upwardly to form a guide flange 16.The upper edge of the guide strip 16 extends above the lower edge of theguide strip 14, and said strips 14-. and 16 are in parallelism with eachother though spaced apart.

In the sliding cooperation of the parts, the guide flange 1d of theguide strip is positioned between the flanges 5 and 6 and of the guiderail, the main strip of the guide strip bearing against the outersurface of the flange 6, while the flange 16 ot the guide strip bearsagainst the outer surface of the flange 5 of the guide rail. By thisarrangement the guide strip is slidably mounted in the guide rail whileat the same time it is prevented from vertical movement in eitherdirection while so connected. This is important in order to prevent atilting of the auxiliary bed when fully extended, and in connection withsuch arrangement it will be noted that the extension of the guide stripsbeyond one side rail of the auxiliary bed frame forms an extendedbearing with said guide strips on the guide rails when the auxiliary bedis extended to proper position, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. The innerends of the auxiliary bed are supported by the guide rails when theauxiliary bed is extended, and to support the outer end of saidauxiliary bed I provide legs. For compensating for any floor covering orother obstruction the legs of the auxiliary bed should be adjustable asto height, and this is provided for in the present improvement. The legsare of identical structure and bolted to the frame of the auxiliary bed,so that said sections may be readily removed when desired to pack theauxiliary bed for storage or shipment. Brace bars 19 are removablyconnected to the main lengths 17 and to the end rails of the auxiliarybed by removable bolts to permit the disconnection of these parts whendesired. Slidably mounted in the main lengths 17 of the legs are posts20 held in adjusted posit-ion within said main lengths 17 by set screws21, the lower or free ends of the posts 20 being provided with castersor other similar devices 22.

From Fig. 1 it will be noted that the auxiliary bed may be readilyextended to a position wholly to one side of the main bed and thusaffords an increased width of said main bed for any desired purpose, andthat when not desired for use the auxiliary bed may be readily moved toa position beneath the main bed and wholly out or" the way. Theauxiliary bed with its cooperating parts forms a structure whollyindependent of the main bed, and may be readily removed therefrom orconnected thereto when desired, such operation requiring only themanipulation of the clips 7 to release the guide rails from the main bedside rails, whereupon the entire structure may be wholly separated fromthe main bed and stored until again required. .Vhen in inoperativeposition the auxiliary bed is wholly out of the way and in tact cannotbe seen when the main bed is dressed in the usual manner, so that by myinvention a simple means is provided which for emergency uses may becaused to increase the width of any bed structure for use and enable,for example, a single bed to be readily made into a double bed forsleeping purposes and collapsed to a single bed when not desired forsleeping purposes. This advantage alone is important in restrictedquarters.

lVhat is claimed is:

The combination with a main bed, of guide rails removably securedthereto and comprising metallic strips bent to form spaced parallelflanges and clips slidably connected to said guide rails and movable toembrace the side rails of the bed between the clips and guide rails, anauxiliary bed comprising a spring carrying frame having end rails ofgreater length than the width of the frame, each of said end rails beingformed to provide guide strips including spaced parallel flanges toembrace the outer sides or the parallel flanges of the guide rails andan intermediate flange to slide between the parallel flanges of theguide rails.

In testimony whereof we aflix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JAMES R. ShLlITH. PAR-SKILL E. lVlLLlAMS. lVitnesses:

W. H. SrAnxMAN, E. VI. MILLER.

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